It seems fitting then to revisit an essay Clark wrote 20 years ago about powerful short-form writing. Most of the good stories we tell can be told in 800 words or less. Let me try one. It involves ...

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Write Michigan Short Story Contest began accepting entries on Sept. 1 and is open until Nov. 30. It is open to Michigan ...

You can finally read this Ernest Hemingway story about Paris after WWII In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher about five short stories ... of the Paris Review. Writer Mo Yan Wins ...

Short stories in the horror genre can be more terrifying than novels due to their ability to hold readers in haunting ...

Eudora Welty was a short story writer and novelist known for her portrayals of the American South. She received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter.

could "accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel" within a short story. She produced more than a dozen collections ...

And she’s here to talk about a recent piece we worked on together that featured a writing competition of sorts. We pitted an original short story from Curtis that she wrote for The Times against ...

Brand new stories, from today’s best writers written exclusively for Radio 4 – the home of the Short Story Radio 4 is the world’s leading commissioner of new short stories. Expect excellent ...